Monday, 19 November 2012

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ThomasWyatt(1503-1542):It may be good like itwho list:transcription from original text (British Library Egerton MS 2711, fol. 22) by Richard Harrier in The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poetry,1975

Palestinian doctors gather to pray around the bodies of four
children from the al-Dallu family killed along with seven other persons
when an Israeli missile struck a family home in Gaza City, 18
November 2012: photo by Majdi Fathi / APA Images

"At
least 11 members of one family, including five women and four children,
were killed when Israel bombed a house in Gaza City on Sunday as the
five-day-old war claimed more civilian lives with no sign of a let-up in
the intense bombardment."The
air strike flattened the home of the Dalou family in the Sheikh Radwan
district of Gaza City, causing the biggest death toll in a single
incident since the offensive began last Wednesday."On
Monday morning the Israeli defence force appeared to admit the family
had been killed by mistake. The Haaretz website quoted the army as
saying their house was either incorrectly pinpointed or a missile malfunctioned."Elsewhere
in the city early Monday an air strike levelled two houses belonging to
a single family, killing two children and two adults and injuring 42
people, including children, said Gaza heath official Ashraf al-Kidra.
Rescue workers were frantically searching for 12 to 15 members of the
Azzam family under the rubble. Shortly afterwards, Israeli aircraft
bombarded the remains of the former national security compound in Gaza
City. Al-Kidra said flying shrapnel killed one child and wounded others
living nearby."After the Dalou family home was destroyed, the
bodies of the children were pulled from the rubble and taken to the
morgue at Shifa hospital. The dead also included an 80-year-old woman."Diggers at the scene of the explosion were scooping rubble from flattened buildings as rescuers tried to locate survivors."Witnesses
said there were chaotic scenes as the dead and injured were brought to
the Shifa hospital, which has been on emergency footing since the start
of Operation Pillar of Defence."The bodies of four young children
lay on two metal trays in the morgue, covered in dust and blood. A crowd
of onlookers outside became increasingly distressed as the body of the
children's mother was wheeled in, covered in blankets."The strike was originally thought to have been aimed at a Hamas official, Mohamed Dalou."In
all, 84 Palestinians, about half of them civilians, have been killed in
the five-day onslaught and 720 have been wounded."

Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem, The Guardian, 19 November 2012

Palestinians gather
around a crater caused by an Israeli air strike on the al-Dallu family's
home in Gaza City, 18 November 2012: photo by AFP Photo / Marco Longari

“The
Israeli military is prepared to significantly expand the operation. The
soldiers are ready for any activity that could take place… the Israel
Defense Forces have attacked more than 1,000 terror targets in the Gaza
Strip and it continues its operation in this very moment.”

Israeli soldiers check ammunition at a staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip, 19 November 2012: photo by Nir Elias / Reuters

Smoke rises after an Israeli forces strike in Gaza City, Sunday, 18
November 2012. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the
Gaza
Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian
territory's Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings
used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets: photo by Bernat Armangue / AP

A
Palestinian man cries next the body of a dead relative in the morgue of
Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, 18 November 2012: photo by Bernat Armangue / AP

Palestinians
gather around a destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Khan
Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 19 November 2012: photo by Abu Mustafa / Reuters

Yet this feeling is less than nothing compared to what those in the prison yard,in the foxpen of Gazamust (must!) endure:

the torn flesh, the poisonous ruins,the constantly recurring, familiar dread,the sky a weaponwhere death approaches from every angle.The mind gives wayin this ceaseless obscene warthat distorts and maims what it does not destroy.

The recursiveness in the present events is palpable. The last major Israeli assault in Gaza happened almost exactly four years ago, between the American elections and the inauguration. Then as now, civilians, particularly children, bore the brunt of the blow. There are now reports from medical personnel in Gaza that they are seeing children with severe disfiguring burns, as was the case after the white phosphorus raids four years ago.

The video link sent by L'Enfant tells more than one might have wished to know about the attitude of the mainstream Israeli populace toward the massacre in Gaza.

"On 15/11/2012 some anti-war organizations held anti-war demonstration in Tel Aviv against the latest massacre in Gaza. This is some footage from the counter demonstration.

"The man giving a speech in this video is Michael Ben Ari, an Israeli Knesset member.

"This is NOT some extreme minority but the consensus of the vast majority of the Israeli public."

[Transcription from video:]"The people demand victory!"The people demand war!"Hooray for the IDF!"The people demand to expel leftists!"

[shouting down anti-war demonstrators:]"You motherfuckers you whores! You were born from the sperm of Nazis!"You motherfuck with arabs you sons of whores!"Eighty years you are doing terror to Jews you whores!"God will take you!"I hope in the next alarm you will be deaf and you won't hear it! You sons of whores!"Spit on your face you whores!"

[Israeli Knesset member Michael Ben Ari takes the bullhorn:]

"Good evening good Jews!"And all the traitor leftists!"We are saying let the IDF kick some ass!"Leftists get out!"Leftists to Gaza!"And don't get confused! There are no innocent people in Gaza! No more negotiations!"No more agreements!"We're getting them on their knees and kicking their ass!"Erasing Gaza!"Why is it only 200 flights and 15 killed?"We want 15 flights and 2000 killed!

now me I'm just a doctor in a remote place...and if I kept mymouth shut they would probablysay he's just a People of the Bookso he'll just have to pay doubletaxes.....but there's no tellingwhat the Islamic extremists woulddo to all you poets who ain'tbehind the veil, who don't flogand stone adulterers....my Godwhat would ever happen in Californication land ie most ofAmerica...and the proponents of gaymarriage or anything else....thegay leather bars off of Market street would surely feel the leather then...and perhaps Katusharockets will be fired from Oaklandwhich surely must have a radicalMosque, at Berkeley, because of its historical lax morality cursedstate according to Sharia law...but not to worry...Berkeley is onthe list but a long way away...but Israel is not...the messageof Mein Kumpf...Hitler's little socalled "unbelievable" ditty is thatif someone comes to kill you because you're Jewish...kill himfirst...is there anybody in theboobyhood who's willing to live andlet live probably not and war isHell...there's plenty of landlike in the US most people live incities and do great....Islamistsmake our main stream politicianseven Mitt Romney seem like AllenGinsburg in comparison to themand war is never pleasant but thereare worse things than war..

They are looking at their religion.It is in an unfathomable crater.Space, created by a weaponfrom another religion. The religious warsare an excuse. An excuse to kill,to obliterate. More contaminated groundto gain and call it historyat a distance. Up close, it isbeautiful fur, cheap pelts once again,to be sold to the others.